Periodontitis occurs in 15% of adults with teeth. Antibiotics are used as an adjunct to standard mechanical therapy for the treatment of periodontitis. As antibiotic use has increased, many bacteria have acquired resistance ...

This dissertation investigates two key innate immune cell subsets, monocytes and NK cells, with regard to their ability to influence HIV transmission and disease progression, including their role in defense against ...

To gain a greater understanding of the overall fitness of IHNV viral variants, this thesis describes the development of a novel in vivo superinfection fitness assay and the application of this assay to the IHNV-<italic>O. ...